Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

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As the Arctic Monkeys proved recently, the internet can be extremely useful for unsigned bands. While record companies fret about profits being wiped out by song swapping, those on the bottom rung of the ladder can climb up by word of mouth.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are a Brooklyn-based five-piece who, on the strength of a handful of internet reviews and a glowing profile on the weblog MySpace, have already sold 25,000 copies of their self-released debut album. Until a few months ago they had no PR machine and no record company. Major labels, you imagine, must be longing